Captured on Video: Man Rescues Iguana Swimming in Ocean Miles from Shore

A man paddling in the Florida Keys captured the moment he rescued a stranded iguana swimming about four miles from shore.

The man, whose Youtube account says is named Steve, was coming back from an off-shore trip when he noticed something floating in the distance.

“All I could see were the multiple fins running down its back so I thought it was some sort of palm frond, but it just didn’t look right,” he wrote in the description of the Youtube video. “I ended up stopping and noticed that it started swimming.”

The reptile swam up to Steve’s motorized kayak and at first didn’t look like he was going to make it on.

Steve offered him a paddle, and the iguana accepted his help.

“It was pretty cool see it trust me enough (versus dying of course) to swim toward the kayak and hop on,” he wrote.

He put him in the back of the kayak on the lid of a cooler and prepared for takeoff.

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